Flowers was below average with the bat in parts of the last two seasons, and shows no signs of improving based on his horribly bad start to the year. His career numbers in 407 PAs (.200/.296/.383) are starting to look more and more like another former White Sox prospect's numbers (.205/.284/.352). That line belongs to Joe Borchard.

Should Flowers get sent to AAA to work on his mechanics, or downgraded to a platoon role with Josh Phegley? Phegley at least has put together some flashy offensive numbers in AAA this year.

If Flowers maintains this offensive offensive production for another month or so, I don't see how the organization can rationalize keeping him in the lineup nearly every day. It may be time to admit the Flowers experiment (which I was in favor of, actually...had to find out if he could hack it eventually) is nearing an end.

That's not to say he can't turn it around, but the evidence is piling against him with every long, desperate swing he takes at those 1-2 curves.

Phegley is terrible, give Flowers a year to figure it out. This team sucks anyway, we are not going anywhere, lets see if a full year, if he can be the C we thought (230-240 hitter, 20 homers, big arm behind the plate).

But yah, Phegley is never going to be anything but a back up C at best.

However, I do agree that 5 weeks is a bit early to judge Flowers. Although, it does appear that Tyler has a gigantic hole in his swing so far. He also has shown an inability to lay off pitcher's pitches on the outer half of the plate. He gets pull happy and rolls into a lot of 6-3 and 1-3 ground outs. If he is still struggling in July or August, it will be interesting to see if the Sox stick with him the whole way.

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I really like the idea of bringing up Josh Phegley as our DH. If the White Sox can find some way/anyway of getting Adam Done off the team, I would have no problem with giving Phegley a shot as our DH. He couldn't possibly be worse than Done.

It might be too soon to give up on both players (as they're both young), but it's not too soon to say they both have no business on a major league team with any sort of aspirations. Both are projects more than prospects, and not likely to amount to anything.